If wishes were horses...

[sarea]

You know what D/G needs? Its own site, where writers can register and post their D/G-oriented fic. All ratings would be accepted. The rules would be, "D/G, and whatever the hell other ships you want." Portkey and Checkmated are both fine sites, but they're H/Hr and R/Hr oriented, which means that a D/G writer is in this awkward position of having two places to archive his/her fic, depending on what the subpairings in the story are. This also means that sometimes, story direction gets decided by where the story can get posted, which is not the ideal way to plan a story -- and yet, who can blame a writer for doing so?

After corresponding with the lovely bunny_wabit, I now know for sure that you can't "break" the H/Hr ship on Portkey regardless of which ship pairing you're placing the story under. And because it's an H/Hr-focused site, the reverse isn't true for the others (you can post H/Hr stories that break the other ships). That is completely the prerogative of the site's maintainers, and I respect that. Sure, it bothers me a little, but the main issue is that that means, even though Portkey is a D/G-friendly site, I can't post the whole spectrum of what I might write wrt D/G. I can only post D/G + H/Hr or D/G + no Harry romance + no Hermione romance fics. That is way limiting for me. From what I can tell of the rules at Checkmated, it's the exact same kind of limitation, only w/ R/Hr instead of H/Hr. And in fact, I'm not even allowed the option of D/G without R/Hr, which at least at Portkey would be acceptable (meaning D/G only).

I'm just throwing this out there, mainly to vent, and maybe with the hopes that someone who can actually do something about it will hear my plea. I don't have the expertise, personality, or resources to create/maintain such a site, but something like that would rock my socks off.

Comments

[rainpuddle13.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I'm going to have to stop posting TW after a while on Portkey because, while I have H/Hr, there will be no R/L in my fic - Luna doesn't even show up. I have other plans for Ronald. Gah! That is so frustrating. I think you should be able to break sub-ships if the main focus is H/Hr, R/L or D/G. If not you'll end up with a bunch of fics with the same old crap. I hate being pigeoned holed like that.

Unfortunately, it still looks like ff.net and fa.org are best bets and natually, neither accepts NC-17 material...

GAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's part of my rant -- what you're talking about? That's totally fine. At Portkey, ONLY H/Hr cannot be broken. You can break up D/G or R/L as you wish, as long as the story isn't placed under that category. So since TW is a D/G story, it doesn't have to be R/L. (However, if you have Harry or Hermione romantically involved w/ anyone, it has to be w/ each other.) Make sense? Well, in a general way, at least? <g>